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A Spiritual Journey to Redemption-A Bildungsroman Perspective to the Kite Runner

Author: JiangXiaoQing
Tutor: WangShaLie
School: Yangzhou University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Khaled Husseini The Kite Runner Bildungsroman Theme of Redemption Symbol
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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\To receive widespread attention and praise since first published in June 2003, the book has been translated into 40 languages ??and sales of over ten million. In addition, the book also became a 2006 French book club choice for the book and the American Library Association recommended books. In the first person, the novel about childhood and his adult after the fault committed by the childhood redemptive journey of Afghan immigrants in the United States. Currently, scholarly articles on the study of this work is mainly focused on the following aspects: the image of the kite, Hassan's image, racial discrimination and religious strife, and redemption and return of human nature. On the surface, the novel seems to involve a lot of social problems, such as, friendship and betrayal, the generation gap between father and son, guilt and redemption, but throughout the novel always is the Amir personal spiritual salvation upbringing - growth theme - both a single-parent mother died young children how to get rid of cowardice, abandoned the frailty of human nature, justice, the pursuit of justice and human kindness. In this paper, starting from the personal spiritual salvation of the protagonist and the experience of growing discussed Amir how external forces to promote the Next Step in the ideological and psychological abandon selfishness and solipsism morality, from naive to human kindness and in evil before the brute force and uphold the noble qualities of justice. The Growth Theme novels originated in Germany, and was brought to Europe, the United States, and even the world. In general, this type of novel has some educational value, give people an up Endeavour's power and the desire to provoke strongly chemotactic good. \Novel not only from the front to shape a social status humble, a highly respectable admirable image of racial discrimination Hazara tribe children - Hassan - the people, while the protagonist Amir childhood in order to win the Father love and indifference on the sidelines the others friends Hassan abuse and the last its move betrayal portrayed distressing people think reasonable. It is the piece painful event (the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban raging, fled the way the father of upright behavior to return to Afghanistan to rescue Hassan's orphans Suo Labo and Hassan and his two rival the Taliban leader Assef last confrontation) Amir to grow. Secondly, in order to better shape the growth process of the protagonist, the author of the novel, Hosseini several repeating technique create a kite Imagery. The use of this narrative strategy, further enhancing the significance of the theme of the novel. Amir newborn when the mother's death, caused by Amir father hated him and he does not like the reasons, in order to retrieve his father's love and affirmation of their own, Amir for the first time to participate in the city of Kabul's annual kite competition, which aims to the to get kite competitions victory to win the fatherly kite flying symbolizes the ideal childhood hero to win fatherly. Hasan Amir win this game away to catch up with the bird blue kite, do not want to Assef et al has suffered beatings and rape, standing on the corner of Amir witnessed all chose silence, and no the courage to stand up and protect Hassan, Amir in order to escape the pain of immediate remorse restless final design drove away the Hasan and servant Ali. Soon, Afghanistan suffered the invasion of the Soviet Union, Amir and his father fled to take refuge in the United States, but the shadows of childhood betrayal of Hassan has been enveloped him after twenty-six years, the Amir to atone back to Kabul to rescue Hassan son Suo Labo, with childhood rival Taliban Assef launched a deadly duel Suo Labo will eventually be brought back to the United States. Part in the end of the novel, the the Amir and Suo Labo two in a foreign country, and again, flying kites, this time completely won Suo Labo trust, this time flying the kite symbolizes the ideals and the return of human nature, but also a symbol of the the hero Amir real growth.

A Spiritual Journey to Redemption-A Bildungsroman Perspective to the Kite Runner

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